Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Transitland
Open data platform aggregating GTFS and GTFS Realtime data.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Transitland launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap. The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city. The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach. This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested:…
2023 · map.henryn.xyz · its alternatives →
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2019 · ixn.intersection.com · its alternatives →
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Save $5 by buying both books together!Book 1 - The Definitive Guide to GTFSLearn all about the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and how to consume open public transportation data, including:All about the structure of a GTFS feedHow to import a GTFS feed to an SQL database and perform querie
2014 · gtfsbook.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I've open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap. You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here. Check out the repo (https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap). The map data comes from OpenStreetMap. I also provide weekly full planet downloads both in Btrfs and MBTiles formats. I aim to cover the running costs of the public…
2024 · openfreemap.org · its alternatives →
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PlanetScale Beta▲271The last database you'll ever need. Go from idea to IPO.
2021 · planetscale.com · its alternatives →
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Comprehensive information about public transit systems worldwide.
Mar 2026 · publictransit.systems · its alternatives →
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2013 · transitfeeds.com · its alternatives →
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Transit▲123Real-time transit data and a bot to help you commute
2016 · transitapp.com · its alternatives →
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Zfs.rent▲403Colocate your own 3.5" SAS/SATA hard drives in a Tier 2 datacenter!Eliminate data transfer costs by shipping drives directly!
2020 · zfs.rent · its alternatives →
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With the OpenDataDiscovery Platform, you can collect metadata from any data source, regardless of format or location. This powerful platform provides data discovery, observability, and trust for your entire data pipeline.
2022 · opendatadiscovery.org · its alternatives →
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Over the past week I built a project to let people self-host an entire maps stack so they don't have to send data to the big G. Right now it includes a base map, geocoder and directions server. Currently only bicycle directions are supported, and I'm only hosting tiles for Seattle because I'm unemployed and can't afford to host data for the whole planet. Check it out! https://maps.ellenhp.me/ https://github.com/ellenhp/headway Ultimately I'd like to really focus on transit routing (not implemented) but I'll probably throw a driving mode in there too.
2022 · maps.ellenhp.me · its alternatives →
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Metro▲103Universal data collection, powered ethically by your users
2018 · getmetro.co · its alternatives →
- 15MMapipedia▲61
A web platform I've written to make it easy for people to share goespatial time series data and display it on animated heatmaps. There's also a social media component that allows you to write comments, follow, share and like data sets that you want to engage with. You can also download the CSV data and embed animations into your own websites. People uploading datasets can also choose to make money by accepting donations. Please check out the home page for more details: https://mapipedia.com Here are some samples of things created with the platform (press the play button to start…
2019 · its alternatives →
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2020 · textdb.dev · its alternatives →
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2016 · everythingstays.com · its alternatives →
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kepler.gl▲116Uber's geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets
2018 · kepler.gl · its alternatives →
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Browser-based GTFS viewer for routes, stops & schedules
Apr 2026 · transit-lens.com · its alternatives →
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Distributed NoSQL Database. Contribute to stephenmcd/curiodb development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After three years in development, I'm thrilled to share Transitive: an open-source framework for full-stack robotic software (https://github.com/transitiverobotics/transitive). The Transitive framework makes it easy to build robot cloud portals. Even given all the great open-source tools for web development and device management, building such cloud portals for robots is still not an easy task. There are several reasons for this, but a big one is that robots are different from regular servers, despite many people attempting to tread them as such. They go offline a lot,…
2024 · transitiverobotics.com · its alternatives →
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MovingLake▲65Proprietary data connectors for data & transactional systems
2022 · movinglake.com · its alternatives →
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Warp 10▲58Collect, store, and analyze time series and geolocated data
2020 · warp10.io · its alternatives →
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